Vulnerability CVE-2007-6262
Published: 2007-12-05   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
A certain ActiveX control in axvlc.dll in VideoLAN VLC 0.8.6 before 0.8.6d allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted arguments to the (1) addTarget, (2) getVariable, or (3) setVariable function, resulting from a "bad initialized pointer," aka a "recursive plugin release vulnerability."

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
High
VLC Activex Bad Pointer Initialization Vulnerability
Ricardo Narvaja
06.12.2007

Type:

CWE-119

 (Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.4/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Videolan -> Vlc media player 

 References:
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3420
http://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2035
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/484563/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26675
http://www.videolan.org/sa0703.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4061
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38816
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14280
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